Improved bedstead fastening



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Letters Patent No. 64,048, dated April 23, 1867.

IMPROVED BEDSTEAD FASTENING.

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TQ ALL WHOM IT MAY CONCERN:

Be it known that we, vGrnoRGE SUGG and WILLIAM METZ, both of the city ofChicago, in the county of Cook, and State of Illinois, have invented newand useful improvements in fBedst'ead Fastenings and we do herebydeclare that the following is a full and exaetdeseription thereof,reference being had tb the aceompanying drawings, making part of thisspecification, in which- Figure l represents a longitudinal section offastenings and rails.

Figure 2 the front Viewl of the female fastening and side view of themale fastening; and

Figure 3 the side view of the female and the front view of the malefastenings. p

Similar letters of reference in each of the-several figures indicatecorresponding parts of the fastenings.

The nature of our invention consists in making *the side-rail or malefastening plain and of uniform thick ness, with Hanges projecting tohook it on; this improvement having an object of fixing said fasteningsinto the rails quickly-and conveniently. v

To enable others skilled in the art to make and use ourinvention, wewill proceed to describe its construction and operation. l l

The back of the female fastening A has a shape 'of a curveV describedwith the radius of a circular saw, generally used at the furnitureshops, and of any diameter; the ends B B, into theholes of which, C C,enter the screws to secure fastening, remaining square; slot D beingarranged in a usual way, as also Hanges al d insidehof the fastening.The side rail or male fastening E is made of uniform thickness, withprojecting ilanges' F F to hook it into the female fastening A. The malepart o-f the fastening E is constructed with two arms O projecting atright :ingles from the body E, and terminating in two circular heads` I,as shown clearly in iig. 2. To attach this to the side rail, it is onlynecessary to bore a couple of holes Vin the side of the railof propersize to receive the heads I, and then eut straight recessesfrom thosepoints to the end of the rail and fit the fasteningE therein, as shownin fig. 1. By these means the fastening is secured very firmly to therail at two separate points, and is securely held from pulling out bythe'heads I, a block Aor cleatbeing glued orV screwed over it to keep itfrom being displaced sidewise as usual with fastenings of this style.The piece A is set into the head rail so as to have its straight side Gcome Hush with the side of the rail, while the piece E is set into theside rail so as to have the wood como up to the line H H. v

The advantages of our fastenings are that the female piece being shapedas the segment of a circle the groove in the head rail to put it in maybe outout with a set of circular saws very quickly, and only smallspaces'for the'ends B B have to be chiselled out; also themale piecebeing of uniform thickness may be readily put on.

What We claim as our invention, and'desire to secure by Letters Patent,is- As'a new article of manufacture the bed fastening, consisting of theplate A, constructed as herein described,

i and used in combination with the plate E, provided with the arms O,with the enlarged heads I, as herein set forth.

GEO. SUGG, WM. METZ.

Witnesses:

JAs. R. HAYDEN, T. B. TUHGHING,

